Dan Simmons
Dan Simmons
Dan Simmonsis an American science fiction and horror writer. He is the author of the Hyperion Cantos and the Ilium/Olympos cycles...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth4 April 1948
CountryUnited States of America
power style currency
Power: a currency that never went out of style.
ignorance shields losing
Losing our ignorance can be dangerous because our ignorance is a shield.
writing relax exhausted
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
moving careers truth-is
The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
night light sound
Words are the light and sound of our existence, the heat lightning by which the night is illuminated.
life waiting found
God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
essence violence aberration
You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.
passion brain crowds
The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.
pain things-in-life interesting
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are more boring to listen to or read about.
leadership political age
Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.
law being-ignored habit
Laws had a bad habit of being ignored or abrogated when societal push came to totalitarian shove.
insanity mind would-be
If everyone could understand the working of a psychopath's mind, we undoubtedly would be closer to insanity ourselves.
self design humanity
We are not the only avatars of humanity. Once our computing machines achieved self-consciousness, they became part of this design.